Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

Christina J. Hodge provides strategic and operational leadership across programs, collections, and institutional initiatives. Her work translates ethical complexity in collections stewardship and governance into institutional systems that align care, accountability, and public scholarship, with particular attention to the ways institutional transitions clarify and reconfigure the capacities of museums. As a museum anthropologist working across museum studies, critical heritage studies, and historical archaeology, Hodge's research examines university collections to illuminate hidden institutional histories, questions of provenance, and the ongoing relationships that shape community memory and identity. She approaches curation as inquiry-driven, practice-based research. Hodge holds an AB in anthropology, an MA in archaeological heritage management, and a PhD in historical archaeology. She serves on a six-year presidential cycle for the Council for Museum Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association (President-Elect 2022–2024; President 2024–2026; Past President 2026–2028).